Part I Designing Device Drivers for the Solaris Platform
1. Overview of Solaris Device Drivers
2. Solaris Kernel and Device Tree
5. Managing Events and Queueing Tasks
7. Device Access: Programmed I/O
10. Mapping Device and Kernel Memory
Introduction to Device Context
Entry Points for Device Context Management
devmap_contextmgt() Entry Point
Associating User Mappings With Driver Notifications
14. Layered Driver Interface (LDI)
Part II Designing Specific Kinds of Device Drivers
15. Drivers for Character Devices
18. SCSI Host Bus Adapter Drivers
19. Drivers for Network Devices
Part III Building a Device Driver
21. Compiling, Loading, Packaging, and Testing Drivers
22. Debugging, Testing, and Tuning Device Drivers
23. Recommended Coding Practices
B. Summary of Solaris DDI/DKI Services
C. Making a Device Driver 64-Bit Ready
Some device drivers, such as drivers for graphics hardware, provide user processes with direct access to the device. These devices often require that only one process at a time accesses the device.
This chapter describes the set of interfaces that enable device drivers to manage access to such devices. The chapter provides information on the following subjects: